SBIR Phase II: Wireless-Wireline Convergence

SBIR 第二阶段：无线与有线融合

• 批准号: 2322344
• 负责人: akula reddy
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: PHYTUNES INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-12-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322344&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Wireless; Wireline

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project provides ubiquitous indoor access to high capacity, low latency 5G and 6G networks which can have direct and indirect benefits to society.  The direct benefits include an increase in the ability to support manufacturing, health care, education, and enterprise services.  For instance, remote diagnosis and surgery require very high data rates and very low latency, but medical equipment and the architecture of hospitals generate significant interference and propagation issues which drastically limit coverage. Modern industrial manufacturing (Industry 4.0) also requires advanced networks to enable in-building robotics with artificial intelligence and augmented reality to enhance productivity.  Removing high frequency 5G coverage limitations will directly improve the ability of these industries to drive medical advances, increase manufacturing safety and efficiency, increase educational opportunities, and improve general workplace productivity. The indirect benefits of this project, while more difficult to quantify, may be more important: lowering the economic burden for high-speed connectivity will enhance the diversity of users that can contribute to innovation, thereby resulting in a nonlinear increase in societal progress. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project’s goal is to commercialize a novel technology developed in Phase 1 to enhance 5G indoor internet coverage. The core innovation is a convergence of wireline and wireless technologies enabled through a collaboration between one of the inventors of core DSL (wireline) technology and experts in the development of mmWave 5G (wireless). Specifically, the solution allows for the transmission of mid-band and mmWave 5G signals over an existing wireline medium such as cat5, cat6, or coax which currently have limited use but are already widely deployed in buildings throughout the world. This solution is possible today because of an ecosystem that includes new Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) standards, 5G cores available in the cloud, and increased processing power. The research conducted through this project will prove the feasibility of ubiquitous in-building coverage at scale with multiple low-cost radiofrequency (RF) nodes broadcasting a 5G signal that does not interfere with the outdoor signals from cell towers. The result of this project will be a seamless customer experience that provides the bandwidth and latency promised by 5G and 6G technologies inside buildings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II阶段项目提供了无处不在的室内访问，可访问高容量，低潜伏期5G和6G网络，这些网络可能对社会具有直接和间接的利益。直接好处包括增强支持制造，医疗保健，教育和企业服务的能力。例如，远程诊断和手术需要很高的数据率和非常低的延迟，但是医疗设备和医院的建筑产生了严重的干扰和传播问题，从而大大限制了覆盖范围。现代工业制造（Industrial 4.0）还要求高级网络以人工智能和增强现实来启用构建机器人技术，以提高生产率。消除高频5G覆盖范围的限制将直接提高这些行业推动医疗进展，提高制造安全和效率，增加教育机会并提高一般工作场所生产率的能力。该项目的间接好处虽然更难以量化，但可能更重要：降低高速连通性的经济燃烧将增强可能有助于创新的用户的多样性，从而导致社会进步的非线性增加。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II阶段项目的目标是将第1阶段开发的新技术商业化，以增强5G室内互联网覆盖范围。核心创新是通过核心DSL（Wireline）技术的发明者与MMWave 5G（无线）开发的专家之间的合作来启用有线和无线技术的融合。具体而言，该解决方案允许在现有的有线介质（如CAT5，CAT6或同轴电缆）上传输中频和MMWave 5G信号，该介质目前使用有限，但已经在全世界广泛部署在建筑物中。今天的解决方案是可能的，因为一个生态系统包括新的开放无线电访问网络（ORAN）标准，云中可用的5G内核以及增加的处理能力。通过该项目进行的研究将证明，具有多个低成本辐射射频（RF）节点的无处不在内建造覆盖范围，该节点播放了5G信号，并不会干扰细胞塔的室外信号。该项目的结果将是一种无缝的客户体验，它为建筑物内的5G和6G技术提供了带宽和潜伏期。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的智力优点评估和更广泛的影响，被视为珍贵的支持。